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Conditions

• New Snow (Mid Mountain snow stake)
  • 15” Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am (24 hours)
  • 8” Tuesday 500pm to Wednesday 500am (12 hours)

• New Snow (Summit snow stake)
  • 10” Tuesday 500am to Wednesday 500am (24 hours)
  • 7” Tuesday 500pm to Wednesday 500am (12 hours)

• Last Snowfall
  • 18” Monday Night to Tuesday Night (November 25-27)

• Snowpack
  • 96% of the 30-year average

• Terrain
  • 10 of 23 lifts
  • 25 of 181 trails

Wednesday

The storm delivered!

Here are the mid-mountain totals:

• 3 inches on Monday night
  
  
• 7 inches on Tuesday during the day
  
  
• 8 inches on Tuesday night

This is the mid-mountain snow stake, showing the 15 inches that fell from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning.

Now as of Wednesday morning, it's still snowing, and we should see another 1-3+ inches between Wednesday's 5 am report and Wednesday mid-morning. Temperatures during the day should be in the teens, and I expect snow to decrease after the morning with more scattered showers during the midday and afternoon.

Enjoy the snow, and remember that terrain is still limited during this early season, though hopefully ski patrol and operations crews will be able to open more terrain soon.

Longer Range

Unfortunately, there is no change to the upcoming forecast.

Thanksgiving Day will be the start of an extended period of dry weather that should last into mid-December.

Temperatures will be in the teens and 20s on Thursday and Friday, then we'll slowly warm up with highs around 30°F lasting into mid-December. Most of the snow and cold air will stay over the east coast of the United States during the next two weeks, leaving us mostly or completely dry.

The good news is that this week's snowfall will give us a solid base, more terrain should open on and just after Thanksgiving, and the low sun angle of early December will help to preserve our snowpack.

At various times during the first 10-15 days of December, storms may clip Colorado as they track from central Canada toward the U.S. east coast, so there could be infrequent times of clouds and snow showers. But largely, the first part of December will be dry.

The longer-range forecasts do show a tendency for the weather pattern to change starting around the middle of December, and I'll keep an eye on this. Hopefully, the second half of December will be snowier than the first half of the month.

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• Town of Hayden (6,400 ft)

Best wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving, and my next update will be on Thursday morning.

Thanks for reading!

JOEL GRATZ
Meteorologist at OpenSnow.com